Student Solutions Manual for College Physics

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About the Book

A unique active learning approach promotes deep and lasting conceptual understanding of physics and the scientific process

• Updated – Observational Experiment Tables and Testing Experiment Tables encourage students to become accountable for learning physics as they make observations, analyze data, identify patterns, test hypotheses, and predict outcomes. Redesigned for clarity in the 2nd Edition, these tables encourage students to explore science through active discovery and critical thinking, constructing robust conceptual understanding.
• Expanded – Experiment videos and photos created by the authors enhance the active learning approach. Approximately 150 photos and 40 videos have been added to the textbook, as well as embedded in the Pearson etext, and scores more in the Active Learning Guide (ALG).

 

A wealth of practical and consistent guidance, examples, and opportunities for practice help develop confidence and higher-level reasoning skills

• Expanded and New – Worked Examples, Conceptual Exercises, and Quantitative Exercises build higher-level scientific skills such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and experimental design. New Worked Examples and End-of-chapter problems focus on skills such as data analysis, evaluation, and argumentation.
• End-of-chapter problem types and 15% new questions and problems include multiple choice with multiple correct answers, find-a-pattern in data presented in a video or table, ranking tasks, evaluate statements/claims/explanations/measuring procedures, evaluate solutions, design a device or procedure that meets given criteria, and linearization problems. End-of-chapter problems have undergone careful analysis using Mastering Physics usage datatoprovide fine-tuned difficulty ratings to produce a more varied, useful, and robust set of End-of-chapter problems.

 

A flexible learning system adapts to any method of instruction.

• Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules created for and by instructors model effective teaching strategies. The modules incorporate the best that the text, Mastering Physics, and Learning Catalytics have to offer and guide instructors through using these resources in the most effective way. The modules can be accessed through the Instructor Resources area of Mastering Physics and offer corresponding, customizable pre-built assignments.
• Revised – The Active Learning Guide aligns with the textbook’s chapters and supplements the knowledge-building approach of the textbook with activities that provide opportunities for further observation, testing, sketching, and analysis as well as collaboration, scientific reasoning, and argumentation. The Active Learning Guide is now better integrated with the text and can be used in class for individual or group work or assigned as homework. Now available via download in the Mastering Instructor Resource Center and customizable in print form via Pearson Collections.

 

Pedagogically-driven design and content changes enhance ease-of-use for students and instructors alike

• New, Revised, and Expanded – Topics provide instructors greater choice andinclude capacitors, AC circuits, LEDs, friction, 2D collisions, energy, bar charts for rotational momentum and nuclear energy, ideal-gas processes, thermodynamic engines, semiconductors, velocity selectors, spacetime diagrams in Special Relativity.
• Integration of vector arithmetic into early chapters helps students develop vector-related skills in the context of learning physics.
• Earlier placement of waves and oscillations allows instructors to teach these topics with mechanics if preferred. Coverage with optics is also possible.
• A fresh and modern design provides a more transparent hierarchy of features and navigation structure, as well as an engaging chapter opener page and streamlined chapter summary. The result is a more user-friendly resource, both for learning and reference.
• Expanded – Introductory chapter, now Chapter 1, gives students a more detailed explanation of “How to use this book” to ensure they get the most out of the chapter features, use them actively, and learn how to think critically.
• Revised – Integration of applications throughout each chapter, rather than grouped in the Putting It All Together sections of the 1st Edition, optimizes student engagement and consolidates the explore-and-apply approach.
• Revised – Streamlined text, layout, and figures throughout the book enhance the focus on central themes and topics and eliminate extraneous detail, resulting in over 150 fewer pages than the 1st Edition and allowing students to study more efficiently. 

For courses in introductory algebra-based physics.
This package includes Mastering Physics.

Help students learn physics by doing physics
College Physics: Explore and Apply allows students to build a deep and robust conceptual understanding of physics by encouraging them to take an active role in the learning process. Through this approach, students build a strong conceptual foundation via observation, analysis, and testing that leads to confidence in applying their knowledge to complex situations.

The 2nd Edition offers an updated, pedagogically driven design that streamlines the content to help students focus and use the textbook more effectively. As students actively pursue the process of science, they’re able to build the foundations for conceptual understanding and develop more sophisticated reasoning and problem-solving skills using features such as redesigned Experiment Tables with new Video Demonstrations and innovative Worked Examples.

Mastering^™ Physics and the Pearson eText engage students in active learning and the world of physics. New types of End-of-chapter problems give students the chance to apply what they have learned while the Active Learning Guide (ALG), Instructor Guide, and Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules create a comprehensive learning system that instructors can efficiently adapt to their method of instruction.

Reach every student by pairing this text with Mastering Physics
Mastering™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and often improves results for each student. With Learning Catalytics^™ instructors can expand on key concepts and encourage student engagement during lecture through questions answered individually or in pairs and groups. Mastering Physics now provides students with the new Physics Primer for remediation of math skills needed in the college physics course. Learn more about Mastering Physics.

Brief Contents

1. Introducing physics
2. Kinematics: Motion in one dimension
3. Newtonian mechanics
4. Applying Newton’s laws
5. Circular motion
6. Impulse and linear momentum
7. Work and energy
8. Extended bodies at rest
9. Rotational motion
10. Vibrational motion
11. Waves
12. Gases
13. Static fluids
14. Fluids in motion
15. First law of thermodynamics
16. Second law of thermodynamics
17. Electric charge, force, and energy
18. The electric field
19. DC circuits
20. Magnetism
21. Electromagnetic induction
22. Reflection and refraction
23. Mirrors and lenses
24. Wave optics
25. Electromagnetic waves
26. Special relativity
27. Quantum optics
28. Atomic physics
29. Nuclear physics
30. Particle physics

About the Book

 

A unique active learning approach promotes deep and lasting conceptual understanding of physics and the scientific process

• Updated – Observational Experiment Tables and Testing Experiment Tables encourage students to become accountable for learning physics as they make observations, analyze data, identify patterns, test hypotheses, and predict outcomes. Redesigned for clarity in the 2nd Edition, these tables encourage students to explore science through active discovery and critical thinking, constructing robust conceptual understanding.
• A Qualitative-first System develops conceptual understanding by first introducing concepts in action in the real world, followed by vocabulary and quantitative reasoning.
• Expanded – Experiment videos and photos created by the authors enhance the active learning approach. Approximately 150 photos and 40 videos have been added to the textbook, as well as embedded in the Pearson etext, and scores more in the Active Learning Guide (ALG).

 

A wealth of practical and consistent guidance, examples, and opportunities for practice help develop confidence and higher-level reasoning skills

• A Four-step Problem-solving Approach in Worked Examples consistently uses multiple representations to teach students how to solve complex physics problems. Students follow the steps of Sketch & Translate, Simplify & Diagram, Represent Mathematically, Solve & Evaluate to translate a problem statement into the language of physics, sketch and diagram the problem, represent it mathematically, solve the problem, and evaluate the result.
• Expanded and New – Worked Examples, Conceptual Exercises, and Quantitative Exercises build higher-level scientific skills such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and experimental design. New Worked Examples and End-of-chapter problems focus on skills such as data analysis, evaluation, and argumentation.
• Problem-Solving Strategy Boxes for broad classes of problems use a unique two-column layout that pairs the general steps with a concrete example, further helping students apply a structured approach to solving any problem.
• Physics Tool Boxes focus on a particular skill, such as drawing a motion diagram, force diagram, or work-energy bar chart to help students master the key tools they will need throughout the course to analyze physics processes and solve problems, bridging real phenomena and mathematics.
• New – End-of-chapter problem types and 15% new questions and problems include multiple choice with multiple correct answers, find-a-pattern in data presented in a video or table, ranking tasks, evaluate statements/claims/explanations/measuring procedures, evaluate solutions, design a device or procedure that meets given criteria, and linearization problems. End-of-chapter problems have undergone careful analysis using Mastering Physics usage datatoprovide fine-tuned difficulty ratings and  to produce a more varied, useful, and robust set of End-of-chapter problems.

 

A flexible learning system adapts to any method of instruction

• The Instructor’s Guideprovides key pedagogical principles of the textbook, elaborates on the implementation of the methodology used in the textbook, and offers guidance on how to integrate the approach into your course.
• New – Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules created for and by instructors model effective teaching strategies. The modules incorporate the best that the text, Mastering Physics, and Learning Catalytics have to offer and guide instructors through using these resources in the most effective way. The modules can be accessed through the Instructor Resources area of Mastering Physics and offer corresponding, customizable pre-built assignments.
• Revised – The Active Learning Guide aligns with the textbook’s chapters and supplements the knowledge-building approach of the textbook with activities that provide opportunities for further observation, testing, sketching, and analysis as well as collaboration, scientific reasoning, and argumentation. The Active Learning Guide is now better integrated with the text and can be used in class for individual or group work or assigned as homework. Now available via download in the Mastering Instructor Resource Center and customizable in print form via Pearson Collections.

 

Pedagogically-driven design and content changes enhance ease-of-use for students and instructors alike

• New, Revised, and Expanded -Topics provide instructors greater choice andinclude capacitors, AC circuits, LEDs, friction, 2D collisions, energy, bar charts for rotational momentum and nuclear energy, ideal-gas processes, thermodynamic engines, semiconductors, velocity selectors, spacetime diagrams in Special Relativity.
• New – Integration of vector arithmetic into early chapters helps students develop vector-related skills in the context of learning physics.
• New – Earlier placement of waves and oscillations allows instructors to teach these topics with mechanics if preferred. Coverage with optics is also possible.
• New – A fresh and modern design provides a more transparent hierarchy of features and navigation structure, as well as an engaging chapter opener page and streamlined chapter summary. The result is a more user-friendly resource, both for learning and reference.
• Expanded – Introductory chapter, now Chapter 1, gives students a more detailed explanation of “How to use this book” to ensure they get the most out of the chapter features, use them actively, and learn how to think critically.
• Revised – Integration of applications throughout each chapter, rather than grouped in the Putting It All Together sections of the 1st Edition, optimizes student engagement and consolidates the explore-and-apply approach.
• Biological and medical examples throughout the text and End-of-chapter problems provide relevance for life science majors and include topics such as understanding the effect of radon on the lungs (Chapter 6), measuring the speed of blood flow (Chapter 11), and controlling body temperature (Chapter 15).
• Revised – Streamlined text, layout, and figures throughout the book enhance the focus on central themes and topics and eliminate extraneous detail, resulting in over 150 fewer pages than the 1st Edition and allowing students to study more efficiently. 

 

About our authors

Eugenia Etkina is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She holds a PhD in physics education from Moscow State Pedagogical University and has more than 35 years experience teaching physics. She is a recipient of 2014 Millikan Medal awarded to educators who made significant contributions to teaching physics, and a fellow of the AAPT. Professor Etkina designed and now coordinates one of the largest programs in physics teacher preparation in the United States, conducts professional development for high school and university physics instructors, and participates in reforms to the undergraduate physics courses. In 1993 she developed a system in which students learn physics using processes that mirror scientific practice. That system, called Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) serves as the basis for this textbook. Since 2000, Professors Etkina has conducted over 100 workshops for physics instructors and co-authored the first edition of College Physics and the Active Learning Guide. Professor Etkina is a dedicated teacher and an active researcher who has published over 60 peer-refereed article.

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Gorazd Planinsic is a Professor of Physics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has a PhD in physics from the University of Ljubljana. Since 2000 he has been leading the Physics Education program that prepares almost all high-school physics teachers for the country of Slovenia. He started his career in MRI physics and later switched to Physics Education Research. During the last ten years, his work has mostly focused on the research of new experiments and how to use them more productively in teaching and learning physics. He is co-founder of the Slovenian hands-on science center House of Experiments. Professor Planinsic is co-author of more than 80 peer-refereed research articles, more than 20 popular science articles, and is the author of a university textbook for future physics teachers. In 2013 he received the Science Communicator of the Year award from the Slovenian Science Foundation.

Alan Van Heuvelen holds a PhD in physics from the University of Colorado. He has been a pioneer in physics education research for several decades. He taught physics for 28 years at New Mexico State University where he developed active learning materials including the Active Learning Problem Sheets (the ALPS Kits) and the ActivPhysics multimedia product. Materials such as these have improved student achievement on standardized qualitative and problem-solving tests. In 1993 he joined Ohio State University to help develop a physics education research group. He moved to Rutgers University in 2000 and retired in 2008. For his contributions to national physics education reform, he won the 1999 AAPT Millikan Medal and was selected a fellow of the American Physical Society. Over the span of his career he has led over 100 workshops on physics education reform. He has worked with Professor Etkina in the development of the Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) and co-authored the first edition of College Physics and the Active Learning Guide.

College Physics helps you learn physics by doing physics. This approach helps you build the foundations for conceptual understanding and develop more sophisticated reasoning and problem-solving skills that can be applied to complex situations.